Rügen by the Baltic Sea

Active holiday featuring cycling and hiking

Enjoy an active holiday featuring cycling and hiking along the Baltic coast in Mönchgut on the island of Rügen. Long sandy beaches, rolling hills, and lush forests provide a varied and beautiful setting for your getaway. Often, the only thing breaking the peace is the distant whistle of the historic 'Rasender Roland' steam train. Despite its name (which suggests something "racing" or fast), it’s actually quite the opposite. A journey by train is simply part of the holiday experience.

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Rostock and Warnemünde by the Baltic Sea

A travel guide

A mini-guide through the Hanseatic city of Rostock and its beautiful beach destination, Warnemünde. Home to one of the oldest universities in the Baltic region, the city boasts a rich history. Dusty stone-gazing? Not at all! The Hanseatic city is a fresh metropolis on the Baltic Sea that not only fosters international exchange through ferry connections to Scandinavia and the Baltic region but was also the first university town in Northern Germany and the Baltic region in the first half of the 15th century. And it remains a university town to this day, with young students significantly shaping the cityscape. Join us on a tour of discovery.

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Wismar

The Hanseatic City on the Baltic Sea and its UNESCO World Heritage

The World Heritage House is a building with a stone front house and an attached timber-framed Kemladen on a foundation of loose fieldstones from a medieval predecessor building. This beautifully restored small building complex visually illustrates and provides information via text panels about the lives of past generations in the hall houses typical for Wismar, along with their outbuildings. Additionally, there is extensive information about the city’s history and numerous protected buildings in the old town - there are 1,754 in total, with 306 designated as individual monuments. In the old town, one is right in the middle of Wismar’s UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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In the Probstei in late summer

Schönberger Strand and sea and more

Can you walk or ride a bike from Brasilien (Brazil) to Kalifornien (California) in just a few minutes, always with a view of the water? No, not with your finger on the globe or map, but in person. You’ll have to forgo Copacabana and the Sunset Strip with the Angels in Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels"). Instead, you get Germany’s "True North" with all its bright sides. Of course, there are sometimes shadows here too, but they belong only on the margins of this story.

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Crabs, dikes and the Wadden Sea

The North Sea spa town of Büsum

Once an island, Büsum was repeatedly threatened by the "Blanken Hans". When the greatest flood of the last century struck in 1962, Büsum was already long connected to the mainland - since 1585. Today, this town of around 5,000 residents, part of the Dithmarschen district, is one of the most important holiday destinations along Schleswig-Holstein's North Sea coast. Since 1985, the sea in front of Büsum has been protected as the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, and since 2009, it has also been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Emden in East Frisia

Where East Frisians make jokes and serious art thrives

What do Henri Nannen, the journalist and founder of the print magazine STERN, director Wolfgang Petersen (e.g., Das Boot), and comedians Karl Dall and Otto Waalkes have in common? They were all born in Emden. "The Men of the Emden" (a film) not necessarily, but that's a different story. And of course, women have also been born in this city of around 50,000 inhabitants, the largest in East Frisia, such as former boxing world champion Heidi Hartmann - naturally mentioned only as a representative of all others.

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Norden-Norddeich in East Frisia

At the north Sea

At first glance, one might get the impression that this North Sea resort is merely a transfer station for vacationers heading in droves to the islands Norderney and Juist. But beyond that, Norddeich reveals itself as a far less hectic and manageably small coastal resort. In this state-recognized North Sea spa, tourism has only been promoted since the second half of the last century, apparently with success, as more than 1 million overnight stays per year show.

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A short visit to the historic old town of Heppenheim

Half-timbering, a false dome, and legendary lanterns

The skyline of Frankfurt, Germany's financial capital with its office towers in the banking district, is still within sight when the train to Darmstadt and Bensheim pulls into the small station of Heppenheim. In 2010, the city was on everyone’s lips after native son Sebastian Vettel left all competition behind in his Red Bull car and became the youngest Formula 1 double world champion of all time. In 2011, he added another title to his collection, as did he in 2012 and finally in 2013 for a fourth time. However, we are not following in Vettel’s footsteps but rather those of history in the picturesque old town with its timber-framed houses.

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A stroll through Kiel

Sights in the fjord city and a visit to Laboe

A good starting point for exploring the city today, decades after the end of the war, is the centrally located main train station. On Sophienblatt, the main street running in front of the building, all major bus lines converge, and many sights can also be easily reached on foot during a multi-hour stroll.

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Flensburg an der Ostsee

An der Förde an der Grenze zu Dänemark

„Der echte Norden“, eben damit wirbt das nördlichste Bundesland zurecht für seine ganz eigenen anderen Reize. Und wenn unter anderem die frische Luft als „Das Beste am Norden“ medienwirksam beworben wird, kann man dem vor Ort nur zustimmen. Frisch weht es an der Ostsee an der Ostküste sowie an der Nordsee an der Westküste und dazwischen liegen rund 70 Kilometer plattes dünn besiedeltes Land. Mit knapp 100.000 Menschen ist Flensburg nach der Landeshauptstadt Kiel und Lübeck - der Perle der Hanse - die drittgrößte Stadt Schleswig-Holsteins.

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